Sorry for the short notice, but i only just found this.
https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2020/february/beyond-precarity-cooperatives-in-the-cultural-industries 
I’ll mention Outlandish, Space4, and, the Cotech network.
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Oh! Might be interested. Thank you.
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I’m booked for the Sustainability Conference this morning, and found out about the Co-op event by accident.
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Billy what do they define as ‘cultural’ co-operatives? Does tech fall under that?
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From the links in the Bio’s of the speakers, it’s mostly media industries, so Tech Co-op’s would count as New-Media/Social-Media.
Also realised that it’s taking place at the same time as The Social Enterprise Festival, which i also have tickets to… 
https://www.socialenterprisefestival.london/2020-programme
Who was it that said the Social Enterprises are just Co-operatives without the democracy…? 
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It’s also worth remembering that the Media industries, while relatively open, still have some of the strongest unions in the UK.
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5 years ago, I was a speaker for this event. Someone called @Ieva_BlakeHouse came up to me afterwards, and asked to talk about her idea for starting a worker coop. Tonight she’s the panellist, and I’m a punter. The excellent Marisa Sandoval put this on - she also commissioned Blake House to produce this short video about another CoTech member 
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Siôn… 5years 26 days ago! What a trip 
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I had so much “fun” getting there, that i ended up going back home while i still could do it by myself. 
I hate being disabled.
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